I do a lot of manual curation and, you are right, it is time consuming. However, much of that is focused upon Leofinance which operates with a different curve.
You bring up some great points. I think the biggest advantage to this is that it will encourage more voting of comments on Hive. This is something that I think needs to be done to stimulate engagement.
Newer people of complain they cant get noticed. That is likely true since it takes effort to gain a following. However, commenting is a way to alleviate that since many authors do read their comments.
If we can reward them with Hive, that will, in my opinion, help to spread the distribution of the token out.
With such a small users base it might not be noticeable to start, but as it grows we might see that as a viable way to spread Hive to more accounts.
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